Into the Gray

Still But Still Around

The last couple of months I’ve been on a blogging hiatus, although it wasn’t planned. I’m still reading posts from my beloved favs. Today, I felt like doing a short post. Perhaps it will serve as a jump-start.

I love it when I run into music that really resonates with me, and coincides with a season in my life.

If only that happened more often. When it does, I consider it awe by accident. While browsing YouTube over the weekend, I came upon this exhilarating wingsuiting video, and that’s how I got introduced to the music and musicians.

Here’s the video with Roberta Mancino as she wingsuits through the Panama City skyline, followed by the full track.

a bell must be hollow to sing
it rings
it rings; I am empty.
so still
so still
so still deep water must be to see beneath
to be hollow, with no marrow
light as a lifted wing
light enough to sing

Mmmm, thank you Dear. That is a very nice comparison. Purity Ring, Röyksopp, Dead Can Dance, and some others fall inline with Sigur Ros, yes. Because of my ancestral musical-dancing heritage, particularly to percussion (tribal percussion especially), I do indeed have primal tendencies to this beautiful Earth and how abundantly she sustains us and keeps us close… if we let Her.

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve just now listened to a few from Purity Ring and Röyksopp.
Röyksopp (Running to the Sea) reminds me of Above and Beyond. Love A & B.
Just listened a bit to Dead Can Dance from the album Anastasis. Oh, I likie.

I have a dear friend who’s Danish, but I do not know the language very well. It’s not an easy language to learn. I love the Scandinavian culture. I wished I was living in your neck of the woods. You guys rock!

“Hopefully a secular one.”

Pagan all the way. 😉

Thanks so much for the song dedication. Wow. Can’t go wrong with Tina. She’s simply the best, and so is your thoughtfulness and support. It’s comforting to feel missed.

I realised after the event I should have picked one that was not less religious. Even though I am no longer a person of faith I still like Christmas Carols, I think for the nostalgia element they involve. I think back to the simpler times of youth when Christmas was a magic time.

I still love Christmas music, too. It reminds me of my youth, when my parents went out of their way to make Christmas magical, and never took any credit for it. My step-dad dressed up as Santa every year and passed out the presents, even after we had grown up. 🙂

Having lived my whole life in the Southern hemisphere, where Christmas is around the time of the longest day, and the temperature tends to be warm I find that winter themed Christmas songs don’t really resonate.

Actually for three years in a row around a decade ago we had fresh snow falling on our local mountain on Christmas day. Our local mountain is quite modest being only a bit over 4,000 feet high. We did have snow falling on the mountain a week and a half ago.

It is rarely hot and humid here. When the temperature gets into the 30’s the humidity tends to be below 20%. On Christmas day as the temperature peaked the humidity fell to 14%.

I spent some years living in Sydney where summer is very humid, I found that very hard. In Sydney spring tended to be hotter than summer. But summer was far more humid and thus was much more uncomfortable.

Very fitting being that I’m having a relatively new type of hysterectomy done.

Just looking forward to not having a jumbo size womb dominating my bladder’s space. I’ll be able to drink much more water as well. Hopefully, it’ll restore my physical health, help my weight issues and heal my liver as well.

I took up the guitar because of him. I read about his death one morning while doing my paper-round not long after I had bought my first guitar.
I was inconsolable for almost a week.
Your Italian Jumper is crazy! Damn hot, but completely nuts!

Haha….That was my test batch, I will be baking more over Christmas, maybe I’ll send you a tin if you play your cards right. I have no idea what “play your cards right” in this instance means, but I’ll definitely know when you played them wrong. 😉

Well I require a little faith. I mean I’ll be honest faith makes me feel good, as I am sure God feels the same way. But at least with me you have the freedom to lose faith without punishment should I not deliver! 🙂

“Awe by accident”
Did you hear me squeal when I saw your post in my inbox this morning??
So wonderful to have you back, if even for a moment.
I love how music inspires us in so many ways.
And, the “still” in your title immediately caught my eye. I’m working on my word for the year “still” is on the top two.
Love you sister!

I know tornadoes and other storms have hit Mississippi really hard, three are already dead. Has anything hit you guys. Please let me know with an email or a reply here that you’re okay. I don’t know if it’s as far south as you. I just need to know that you and your Mississippi readers are fine. If there’s anything that you need please let me know!